"You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant. It happened to me." in "Life as house" (movie)
We’ve now been in Edinburgh for a week! Time just flies. Weekends don’t have the same impact as they did before. I recall looking forward to weekends as the mini-holiday break from work. Now tomorrow is just as great if not better than the next day!
Edinburgh is an interesting city. It’s great to see the hills surrounding the city. Nature working in parity with the man built buildings. It strikes hard on the eye - the heavy stone work. The city makes you feel small as a person because everything else is so grand.
I think this is my third time here and I will try to explore it a bit more over the next few days or maybe not. We arrived to snowy weather and gradually greeted by the sun which is nice. More than the city, I’m really loving spending time with my new family, May and Malcolm. It’s funny, I married into the Turner-Kerr family and we’ve only spent time together in a few occasions. I get the feeling that if we don’t make an effort to be a family that time will go past and we will not make the most of this opportunity that greeted us. The two families live in opposite sides of the world, I’m trying to figure out a way to bring them together again at some point in time. The last time we were all together was at our wedding, I’d like to think that we will have many more opportunities. Time is a respectable opponent.
I love watching Col with his parents, seeing the family interaction and realising that is not much different to that of my own. I see bits of May in Col, I see bits of Malcolm in Col and I see Col. Our children will be a match of all that and more. Seeing Col with his friends is great, there’s something to his early days in Edinburgh that still has this magic spell on him. I feel I’m being given a window to something quite unique. And I want to look after these moments that are now being shared with me.
Yesterday we had an early celebration of May’s birthday that is due on the 25th but sadly we won’t be here then. We went for dinner at a really nice restaurant that Malcolm booked just outside Edinburgh. Jean joined us which is great. Going out is a big thing, I don’t think May and Malcolm do it much. So you have all this amazing energy going into planning, organising and eventually leaving the house. It’s the same with Mum and Dad’s. It’s good to see that things are pretty much the same.
This house seems to be missing the noise that it was once bestowed upon by the Turner-Kerr boys running havoc. Today is much quieter. There are about 5 of us in the house today. That’s how it should be. At least that’s what I think. I enjoy the rituals of May preparing porridge for us in the morning, Malcolm always unstoppable fixing this and that and all, Col and I in the middle, trying to help, get attention and just be around them. There are so many more precious moments, but it’s impossible to capture them all. Some of them will be forgotten, the ones that managed to get a space in the camera will live a bit longer.
On Friday we went to Loch Lomond which is an amazing place. The car journey was a bit much for May and Malcolm but I’m really happy they made the effort for us. I think that as you grow older you begin to appreciate the simple things, less is more. It was great to see some of the magic places of Scotland, places that I probably would not get to see so soon.
Family is important and it matters, and I’m so glad we’re having this time together now.
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